Main entry:

Vidler, Anthony, author.

Title & Author:

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux : architecture and Utopia in the era of the French Revolution / Anthony Vidler.

Edition:

Second and expanded edition.

Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, [2021]
©2021

Description:

184 pages : illustrations (some color), map, plans (some color), color portraits ; 25 cm

Notes:
Abridged version of the monograph first published in English as: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux : architecture and social reform at the end of the Ancien Régime. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1990.
First published in 1987 in French translation by Hazan; second edition published in 2005 in French by Hazan, and in English and German by Birkhäuser. This second and expanded edition is simultaneously published in German.
Title of French original: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. Title of German version: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux : Architektur und Utopie im Zeitalter der Französischen Revolution.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-179) and indexes.

Summary:

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) is today regarded as chief representative of French revolutionary architecture. With his extraordinary inventiveness he projected the architectural ideals of his era. Ledoux's influential buildings and projects are presented and interpreted both aesthetically and historically in this book. His best-known projects - the Royal Saltwords of Arc-et-Senans, the tollgates of Paris, the ideal city of Chaux - reveal the architect's allegiance to the principles of antiquity and Renaissance but also illustrate the evolution of his own utopian language. With the French Revolution, Ledoux ceased building as his contemporaries perceived him as a royal architect. He focused on the development of his architectural theory and redefined the vision of the modern architect.

ISBN:

9783035620818 (English edition ; hardbound)
3035620814 (English edition ; hardbound)
(German edition)
9783035620795

Subject:

Ledoux, Claude Nicolas, 1736-1806 Criticism and interpretation.
Ledoux, Claude Nicolas, 1736-1806
Visionary architecture France History 18th century.
Architecture and society France History 18th century.
Neoclassicism (Architecture) France.
Architecture visionnaire France Histoire 18e siècle.
Architecture et société France Histoire 18e siècle.
Néoclassicisme (Architecture) France.
Neoclassicism (Architecture)
Architecture and society
Visionary architecture
France

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Added entries:

Vidler, Anthony. Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. English.
Ledoux, Claude Nicolas, 1736-1806, architect.

Architecture and Utopia in the era of the French Revolution

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320492
Call No.: 320492
Copy: 1
Status: Available